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If this project comes to fruition, public explanations will be held to detail the processes and associated benefits, ...

"Sargassum mats can be up to seven metres deep." On shore, as well as blocking beaches and repelling swimmers, the sargassum stinks as it decomposes. Removal is time-consuming, expensive and can ...

Researchers in Florida used satellite imagery and found exceptionally high amounts of sargassum seaweed in the Atlantic ...

The seaweed has inundated beaches, causing an environmental nuisance. As of June 2018, the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, as scientists call it, extended 8,850km (5,500 miles) and was made up of ...

But some scientists believe the sargassum besieging a growing number of beaches may actually be due to blooms in the Atlantic's equatorial region, perhaps because of a high flow of nutrients from ...

Sargassum plants are a nuisance on some beaches, but they are a shelter and a feast for a complex and amazing variety of marine life. A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts ...

When Dr. Dennis McGillicuddy fished with his grandfather in the waters off the coast of Miami, he said they looked for sargassum–because seaweed was a sign of life.  “Our objective was to find ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Millions of tons of sargassum wash up on beaches across North America every year. Exposure can lead to breathing problems, and it costs millions to clean it up.

Pivoting from conservation to wild seaweed harvesting, ecologist Gabriella D’Cruz sells algae to Mumbai restaurant Masque.